I don’t know if you get the problem. All these people are supposedly against abortion and yet easily confirmed to radical judges. They are all against gay marriage: it has become the law of the land. They all want to repeal and replace Obamacare but it is still the law of the land. They all want to secure the border but it remains insecure. They are all against the deal with Iran and yet it has been ratified. I can go on and on. There are years worth of examples how their rhetoric does not match their results. Either they aren’t really against and for the things they say or they are just incredibly bad at their jobs. Neither option suggest that these people should be promoted to the highest office in the land.
......"~One policy note: Trump has now pledged to strengthen the libel laws to favor the plaintiff in suits against the media. So [Trump's] Tweet siding with Michael E Mann against me does not appear to be an accidental aberration. Thus in November America seems likely to have a choice between two candidates who want to rein in the First Amendment: I didn't see that one coming, although,what with his years of delaying tactics and general obstructionism, evidently Mann did. Judging from responses to Senator Ben Sasse's Twitter feed, principled supporters of free speech are somewhat thin on the ground.
~Ultimately, Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party has only been possible because of the rigid inflexibility of America's party system. The two-party one-party state, unchanged in 150 years, is unique in the western world, where parties are born and die according to whether there's a market for them. If a genuine market in parties were possible here, this season there would be probably be a nationalist party, a conservative party, and a soft-right party - and, over on the other side, a corporatist party and a socialist party. In the British House of Commons, there are currently 11 parties represented, plus four independents. In the Canadian House of Commons, there are five parties. In New Zealand, seven. When The Washington Post's Michael Gerson warns that a Trump nomination would break apart the Republican Party, the implication is that the health of the Republic depends on maintaining the same two parties of the Civil War era for all eternity. Why?"